Shrewd

The ability to leer in a naughty fashion will
often earn a witless fellow a reputation as a wag; luck in getting his
books suppressed will bring an author to renown even though no one has
ever read them. Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke, President of the Leslie-Judge
Co., may not therefore have been altogether stunned when he was told
last week that his funny-paper, Judge, was barred from the mails.

The suppressed issue was called "The Parisian Number"; on its mottled
cover a young woman, silhouetted in white-space, stepped...